That's means the digital and vinyl would sound identical?
If it is your digitisation, then it should sound identical to
your stylus/cartridge/turntable played through
your pre-amp.
I wonder if anyone has ever blind-tested stylus/cartridge/turntable/pre-amp combinations? Vinyl playback is probably one of the most idiosyncratic and individual things in hifi, and my suspicion is that finding two setups that sounded the same would be much harder than telling any two apart.
yes. You could digitize vinyl and make it sound pretty close, unless you are one of those with a stereo setup approaching the 1Million Rupee mark.
it will sound like
your setup, whether that is cheap, expensive, good, bad or indifferent! And if one is happy with the TT setup, one must be happy with digitisations thereof.
It is quite possible for CD to sound equal, better or worse than vinyl. For example I recently bought the Pink floyd division bell LP. I initially compared it to the 2011 remaster from the discovery box set.
Add
different to the list! (EDIT: I just read your post properly
)
I don't mean different like the example that I keep quoting from the Chennai Meet, as in really,
really different, I mean as in...
I was searching for a digital copy of an LP that I own which had become less-than-pristine (OK, record company, so sue me: as far as I'm concerned, yes, I paid for the music already
) and I found one. At first, I didn't like it. This was a live rock concert recording, and it seemed a bit cold and clinical compared to the vinyl. After giving it some listening time, though, I came to realise that there was more detail, and that quite possibly (I wasn't there!) it did sound more like the live music wuld have done. I can understand why some might have gone on preferring my old LP, so not better or worse --- just different.
What I am really interested is; can you make identical copy from a vinyl using a ADC? Can you perceive any loss of quality? Would this copy sound better than a digitally remastered copy?
identical --- is a big word! There is probably no theoretical reason why it should not be identical, but real world considerations might get in the way, and the flavours imparted
by the analogue side of your system certainly will.
remastered --- how good is the mastering? Unanswerable question! Anyway, much of the music on LPs, these days, was digital before it was rendered analogue again.
There are lots of needle drops available on 24/96 using some good TTS and Carts
The "Identical copy from Vinyl" will be dubious and debatable since not all TTs are equal and accuracy in terms of reproduction is not ensured as the chain from TT to cartridge to Phono to ADC is bound to have changes.. unless we are talking of Pro or broadcasting TTs
Absolutely: it is going to be forever a reflection of the system on which it was made, but it should certainly stand up to AB comparison on that system.
Of course, if one works at taking the noise, pops and crackles out then
identical goes out the window, and so does AB comparison.
With another digital copy (but not made by me) of an LP that I have had forever, I had grown so used to a fault on the vinyl that I just accepted it as part of the music. On first hearing, its absence shocked me!
I have another set of albums, digitised at 24/96 (not that I consider that relevant) that are so amazingly good (excepting that I don't, in this case, have the albums to compare) that I am in absolute awe of the pristine-condition LPs, and the care that must have been put in to the work.
